A couple days ago, I got an email from someone called Amy at something called Blogged.com, informing me that “[her] editors recently reviewed [my] blog and have given it an 8.1 score out of (10) in the Entertainment category of Blogged.com.” Suspicious, cynical man that I am, I naturally assumed that the message was some variety of spam or maybe even a highly targeted phishing scheme. However, the fact that everything in the message was spelled correctly gave me the sense that it might be for real, so I thought I’d do a little googling when I had a free moment and try to determine what this Blogged.com thing was all about. It turns out that it is indeed a legit operation. This site describes it as “an online directory for all the blogs in the world. …a catalog that offers information on the entire blog and its overall content.” Which is actually a pretty cool idea, if rather ambitious (all the blogs in the world? How many do you suppose that is? Would it really be possible to catalog them all?).

I must admit, I’m flattered that my humble little scribblings here (a) attracted the notice of this sort of organization, and (b) that I scored quite highly in the eyes of those mysterious editors, whoever they may be. It’s a nice pat on the head to have some maybe-professional say my stuff is “great.” However, I’m not sure what to think of Simple Tricks being pigeonholed as an “entertainment blog.” I know I write a lot about movies and TV, but I think of this place as my personal blog, not an entertainment blog in the sense of something like, say, ScreenRant or even Jaime Weinman’s Something Old, Nothing New. My purpose here is to write about whatever happens to be on my mind… which I suppose the evidence would show tends to be movies and television. I don’t know… maybe it’s just the idea of being so easily categorized that rubs me the wrong way, or perhaps it’s the notion that I might be somewhat single-minded (and hence, potentially, kinda boring). Anyone have any thoughts on this?